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From a long line of witnesses. Illegal conversion of the properties to hotel and inns. Sam airbnb put a lot of money in the d. C. Homeowner pockets. Its a popular and expensive destination. Visitors get break to stay in a persons home. But it would ban converting apartment buildings to airbnbs. They decided to take money taking the rental units off the market. Sam the build would require the hosts to get the licenses, maintain records, have the d. C. R. A. Inspection. No one guest more than 30 days. The host would have to rent 15 days a year when not at home. Some airbnb hosts say they might need to take care of her sick mother longer than 15 days. It worries me that some developer is a bad actor but it is hurting the common people. In mcduffie says he is open to perhaps extending the days somewhat. But egyptair wants 1 but airbnb wants 180 days and mcduffie is not expected to go that high. The bill is not expected to a vote until late may. We will have more coming up at 5 00, including a controversial ad. From the wilson building, im sam ford, abc7 news. Nancy thank you. Service son the h street streetcar line resumed but the 3rd street stop is still closed after a megabus hit it. The platform needs to be rebuild now. The next closest stops are the Union Station or fifth street. Something to keep an eye on for the evening commute. Thankfully no one was hurt in the crash. Alison virginia is canceling a controversial construction plan. Portion of the project is canceled after the residents concerned were heard. Planners are going back now to look over alternatives but they say the overall project should not be delayed. Jonathan finally stopped raining and hey, some of us got to see the sun today. It is going to heat up in the second half of this week. Be ready for that. Stormwatch7s paris hilton has a look it at the forecast. We are flirting stormwatch7s chief meteorologist doug hill have a look at the forecast. We are flirting with 90 . Doug we wimped out. We say 88 is the high but we could hit 90. There is sunshine now outside the stormwatch7s Weather Center in arlington. Average high is up 70. You wouldnt know int for the last few days. Now the sun is up. Its 75 in warrenton. Culpeper. Leesburg is 72. 69 at reagan national. Because of the cloud cover. And the sun breaks out. We have another rise of temperature degree or two later and the next couple of days from 55 to 62 tonight in the 80s and eventually the upper 80s in the forecast. Share it with you fully in 16 minutes. Alison thank you. Preparing for the worst. Terror attack. Full scale drill. Today the police participated to six locations all day long. We responded to multiple locations. We want to make sure to respond effectively and efficiently. Alison hundreds of Police Officers and the firefighters and volunteer actors participating. Nancy the first 100 days ending with a flurry. Showdown over how to handle north amidst this we want to know should the Central Government fund sanctuary citys . Go to wjla. Com votenow to let us know. Q mccray has a look at the impact in your area. Q i have the 49page ruling in my hand. Hyattsville, takoma park and washington, d. C. You can imagine they are pleased with this 49 page ruling. They will continue to receive federal funds. According to trump executive order it would take away funding if they refused to turn over the immigrants. But the judge issued an injunction to stop the president s plans for that is a step in the right direction for people we spoke to today. A good ruling. They should keep the funding coming to washington, d. C. The capital of the United States. It deserves a funding to keep the city top notch for visitors coming from around the world. Q President Trump responded to the ruling this morning. The first ninth District Court ruled against the ban. Now it hits again. Sanctuary cities. Ridiculous rulings. I also spoke to the city manager of takoma park. Wait until you hear how much they could lose. That is something im working on now. That is the latest from pont circle. Alison president has a new tax plan to cut corporate from 35 to 15 . We are digging into what it will mean for you and that is coming up at 45 30. Jonathan in the dark of night a missile test from california. It was headed in direction of korea. The test has the Nuclear Deterrent capabilities and it came hours after trump invided the senate to the white house for a briefing on north korea. Reporter senators bused down pennsylvania avenue for a rare white house meeting. 100 senators by the four Top Administration officials with a focus on one looming threat. North korea. It would meet at the capitol. A briefing followed with the meetings on north korea that are amid high tension. Tension escalating as they moved the controversy antimissile Defense System in place 150 miles south of seoul. It would be operationable in the coming days and better defend south korea. Residents worry it could make them a target. They worry that sophisticated radars on the system is u. S. Could be spying. They said its named north. And is purely defensive system. I dont share your confidence that they will not attack the United States or the states. North korea is defiant against te accused the situation to push the you situation to war and somehowing to continue to conducted missile launches. We may need Missile Defense radars in place to protect the state. Everybody is beefing up. China showing off the aircraft carrier. It could help china plex the muscles in the territorial disputes. The f35s deployed next to russia. It will fly the missions over estonia. The f before 35 crews will get to know the practice with the allies. The taking a break either. This is running drill in the snow. The Rifle Brigade that are trained on the vehicles in the deep snow. This is what they do. They are drag by a snowmobile and shooting to hit the targets while doing that. Alison former viceth President Joe Biden in the area to talk about an issue that is important to him. College sex assault on part of the movement to prevent the next attack. Jeff goldberg was where biden brought the message. Taking the stage to the huge applause, he is run to the point in the effort to prevent Sexual Assault on campus. Speaking at george mason, biden cited a stat that one in five women are Sexual Assaulted in college. Saying the victim sh wears and men have to be part of the solution. The deal is you have to speak up. You cannot let that kind of talk be bred. Jeff the event is its on us Sexual Assault Prevention Campaign launched by biden in 2014. He had step from the show 13 reasons why. Sexual assault reports increased across the country but the advocates say this is a good sign. Indicating that the survivors are more comfortable to speak out. The white house is celebrating melanias 47th celebration in the white house this evening in her honor. Coming up next at abc7 news at 4 00 a lot of cash missing. Alison and what we are learning about a sickout from the metro employees. Nancy it is hard to watch a girl run over twice. How she escapes with only cuts and bruises from this. Jonathan a puppy left for dead is back on his feet. Look at this. Update on eddie and how to find him a new home. Robert we are court side for verz verz where the guys arem whatting up verizon where the guys are warming up for game five. This is game five. But its a must win. We hear from scott brooks next. Nancy heartstopping video from china. This shows a toddler running to a street. She is hit and disappears under a moving car. She was then run over twice. Tough to see. She survived this and was rushed to the hospital with minor bumps and bruises. The Authorities Say the girl was with her grand mother who was distracted as the little girl dashed in the street. Jonathan my gosh. She i alison thank goodness. This is eddie. If you watch the newscast you remember eddie. He was a puppy left for day in a plastic container in howard county. Look at him how a lot better. A brand new puppy. He is looking for a home. Call animal control if you want to adopt him. And if you have information on who left him, let them know. Nancy looks happy. Jonathan the tail is the giveaway. Good to see. Missing money in montgomery county. Alison 40,000 to be exact. All gone. From the p. T. A. Checking account. Jonathan Richard Reeve is live for us tonight. What are they saying about this . Richard the detectives are looking into 40,000 missing from the p. T. A. Checking account. It could be a a little more or less. It happened in march when the Board Members from the council of Parent Teacher Association Began asking questions about the reports of missing funds. An audit found since july 1, 2016, subsequent significant irregularities found and call it the theft of a substantial sum likely by someone inside the p. T. A. Organization. The president of the group paul gellar turned over records this past friday. The investigators are just starting to look at this but parents are outraged. I think its criminal. Im shocked. I think we ought to pursue it and find out where the money is. Richard we went to the p. T. A. Office and nobody was there. Coming up at 5 00, we will explain what the police are doing to get to the bottom of it. Live in rockville, Richard Reeve, abc7 news. Jonathan thank you. New at 4 00, this is something to look at. You see what that is. Not thermal under wear. That is cocaine wrapped around his body. There were two of them. Smugglers. Busted at j. F. K. They were on the same flight. If you combined what they wrap themselves up with the street value of 400,000. Both of them got to show the fashion off to the police because they ended up arrested. Nancy talk about annoying, a woman in seat got a fake 20 taking out money at a. T. M. Look here. The bill has prop money for Motion Picture use only. Took it back to bank of america and got a real 20 bill. Its of course if you look at it closely but if you are in a hurry, i can see it. The real winner this is the prop master that put it together. Alison how did it get there . Jonathan he cashed it. So he got 20. Talk about something fun. Wizardshawks. Alison game five tonight. Nancy Robert Burton is there with a preview. People getting excited. Robert they are. They are getting here early. The players on the floor already. There is an early start tonight. 6 00 tipoff. This is game five. Its a must win. After watching the first two games you thought the wizards could win it in five. Now its six. Vicious series. Its personal. Gamecalling and all that stuff but you cant go back to atlanta down 32. Scott brooks. Scott we havent done a great job on the road but we have had home. The best of three but it is. If needed three more hopefully well come out with the force and the energy and the focus from the first couple of games and i love how we closed out the first games. Robert into a few in a few minutes the players will be available and well talk to them and have it later. Back to you. Jonathan thank you. Nancy with todays not so great weather its good day to watch the game. Doug it is clearing up. This is going to turn summary in the 80s for the next few days. Nancy that sounds wonderful. Doug this is the time lapse from the camera. This was this morning. Its like yesterday and the day before and the day before. Cloudy and damp. Midday the skies will brighten. Then watch this. Wow clear out. Nancy that is toning. Doug that is coming. Blue skies and the warm temperatures. Tonight with the clearing skies on the grounds, the patchy nothing is a good bet. Its still 60s. We have the limited sunshine. The sun is out for a shorter period of time. Tomorrow we make up for that. Patchy fog. Patchy ground fog and the temperatures dropping through the 60s tonight. The rain is finished. The winds turn more east southeasterly tomorrow to keep fog going. Break out and turn bright and sunny through the day. A cold front will come in. Then we have sunshine on friday. Right back in mid80ed. Nice day and then complicated with the shower chances. 8585 thursday and friday. 88 on saturday. Popup heavy thunderstorms. Monday in higher likelihood of showers and the thunderstorms with a warm front cold front deal. After the front passes it will be cooler heading toward next week. Next saturday united is back in town. Good looking weather for the game. We will talk more about the longer term in the forecast coming up shortly. I spent almost three decades in the department of justice. Proud to work on the department. Jonathan coming up next, the former Maryland Attorney general sits down with abc7. Nancy also next, a look at the future for uber. Thats ahead. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been nked highest in Customer Satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. All for 79. 99 per month online, for the first year with a twoyear agreement. Its the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. Cable only offers upload speeds plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. And Verizon Wireless customers can stream tv on the fios mobile app, datafree. Get the best. Go to getfios. Com they also know you need to getg your annual checkup. Now with one touch using the mycigna app you can find a doctor in your plans network to save money. Need to be thorough. Alison former Maryland Attorney general Rod Rosenstein is now the number two at the justice department. Jonathan the Senate Overwhelmingly confirming him tuesday. Nancy Maryland Bureau chief brad bell got to sit down with him. Brad in the last 12 years as the nations longest serving u. S. Attorney, Rod Rosenstein has become a recognizable figure. Often making headlines for locking up crooked politicians including the p. G. County executive jack johnson. Now as he leaves maryland to become President Trumps Deputy Attorney general, he says the focus on justice will not change. I spent almost three decades in the departme department. In a oneonone interview with the office. He declined to stay more about his new job which likely will include leading the investigation in russian involvement in the election and the Incoming Trump administration. He said that the office he leaves will fert out the corruption in maryland, something that continues to frustrate him. It surprises me how braisen the officials can be. We want people to be afraid to commit crimes. Brad he said a disappointment is the skyrocketing murder rate. Folks are killed on the streets of baltimore these days and almost 100 are killed by civilians, not the police. He was confirmed yesterday with the same bipartisan support he enjoyed in maryland. He will be sworn . At 6 00. In baltimore, news. Jonathan coming up next at 4 00, have you seen these two . Police hope you have. The hunt for who robbed an armored car in the district. Concern for the frustration for riders and workers and maybe over a policy. We have more in a live report. Alison new at 52 00, emotional outpouring as Prince Georges County honors an officer killed in the line of duty. Jonathan police need your he en. They released a black ascensioner that the guys bail out holding what look like ak47s. They robbed an armored car last week in northwest and they were driving the agenre. If you know who they are or the vehicle, police would like your help to find them. Nancy the president promised tax reform and the big cuts. Now we are seeing an outline. Michelle the team sharing the proposal that offers very little specifics. We dig deeper in the plan. With three days to go before trump hits the 100day mark the white house is going Big O Campaign promises. Under the trump plan we will make a massive tax cut for businesses. Massive tax reform in simplification. Secretary Steven Mnuchin and National Economic director gary cohn laid out the vision for tax policy to reduce the tax rate from 45 to 15 would be the biggest tax cut in u. S. History, mnuchin claims. The white house also wants tax relief for the middle income families, end the alternative minimum tax and simplified tax code. Taking the current seven tax brackets we have them today and reducing them to three brackets. 10 , 25 bracket and 35 bracket. Democrats and deficit hawks appear united in the opposition questioning how the country will pay the bills. That is a tax giveaway to the very, very that will explode the deficit. Speaker paul ryan would be taxed to get the votes has the details. The administration has not explained how it would be paid for. The draft comes a the leaders in congress continue to negotiate over a deal to fund the government which runs out of money at the end of friday. Jonathan gloomy and stormy. That is the forecast for the capitals. Better for us. Doug clearing up. The sun comes out. We havent had any sunshine. Now the pattern is changing and warm and muggy and feel like summer. You go rest. I know you like to rest. Ill go sit down. You got this . Doug yeah. Easy chair. Pick up a cross road puzzle. Its still 69 in washington. Its not much fun. Fredericksburg in sunshine at 74. This is the storm, the circulation pattern. This is the one creeping up the coast. Now far enough out to allow the clearing to move in with the high pressure. We will see skies clear across the region but with the ground so damp and the temperatures that are still mild, good bet to see area of fog. Plenty of sunshine tomorrow. In the evening look at this. We have the area of th

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